Thailand has confirmed one new coronavirus case and one new death, a senior health official said.

Reuters quoted Taweesin Wisanuyothin, spokesman for the government’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration as saying that the death was of a 69-year-old Australian male who was a hotel manager in the southern province of Phang-nga.

The new case of infection by the coronavirus was of a 27-year-old female patient who had returned from Russia, he said.